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Music and Meaning

British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual One-day Conference

Hosted by The Open University Musics And Cultures Research Group

Saturday 14 November 1998

Berrill Building
The Open University Main Campus
Milton Keynes

Conference Programme:

10.00am REGISTRATION and Coffee

10.30am WELCOME and INTRODUCTION

Session One

10.45am 'Raga Grooves or Emotion and Meaning in Indian Music'
Dr Martin Clayton (Open University)

11.15am 'What do people hear in music?'
Paivi-Sisko Pajala (University of Jyvaskyla)

11.45am 'Meaning and structure - the case of Chinese qin (zither) music'
Dr Frank Kouwenhoven (CHIME, European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, Leiden)

12.15am 'The problem of the music itself'
Dr Jonathan Stock (University of Sheffield)

12.45am LUNCH and BFE COMMITTEE MEETING

Session Two

2.15pm 'Ecological theory and musical meaning'
Professor Eric Clarke (University of Sheffield)

2.45pm 'Meanings in conflict: Rai in Algeria'
Dr Tony Langlois (Open University/ Queen's University, Belfast)

3.15pm 'Young people, music and identity'
Zak Avery (Open University)

3.45pm BREAK

Session Break

4.00pm 'Between two cultures: Music, meaning and education within the British-Asian community'
Dr Jill Scarfe (University of Derby) and Dr Frances Shepherd (University of Kingston)

4.30pm 'The end of the art-work? Intertextuality, digitisation and meaning in pop music'
Professor Richard Middleton, (University of Newcastle)

5.00pm Conference summary and discussion

5.30pm CLOSE